Total Surrender sculpture in Tuna Harbor, San Diego, California, United States of America, North America

Gravestone from the Franklin expedition, Beechey island, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic, Canada, North America

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Altare della Patria, Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe

The Da Gama padrao, a monument to Vasco Da Gama in the Cape Point Nature Reserve in South Africa. Da Gama was a Portuguese sailor/explorer and led expeditions from the Cape to the East in 1497. A padrao is a limestone pillar bearing the Portuguese coat of arms and an inscription stating when and by whom it was raised. The cross signified Portuguese sovereignty and Christianity.

Leifur Eriksson statue outside Hallgrimskirkja Church, Reykjavik, Iceland

Monument to the Discoveries, Padrao dos Descobrimentos, with great people of the Portuguese seafaring history, on the estuary of the Tagus river, Belem, Lisbon, Portugal, Europe

Memorial to Henry the Navigator, Infante D. Henrique, on the Praca da Republica in Lagos, Algarve, Portugal, Europe

Monument to the Lost Seamen, Zmiinyi Island, Snake Island, Black Sea, Odessa, Ukraine, Eastern Europe

Monument on the historic waterfront of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

Monument to the Discoveries, Padrao dos Descobrimentos, Belem district, Lisbon, Portugal, Europe

Monument, Leifur Eriksson, Reykjavik, Iceland

Tourists on a giant world map at the foot of the Monument to the Discoveries, Padrao dos Descobrimentos, Belem, Lisbon, Portugal, Europe

Monument to Leif Ericson, also known as Leifur Eiriksson, an explorer who discovered America, Hallgrimskirkja church, church of Hallgrimur, a landmark of Reykjavik, Iceland, Europe

Halgrims church and Leifur Eriksson monument, Reykjavik, Iceland

Columbus Monument, column at sunset, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe

Memorial to Henry the Navigator, Infante D. Henrique, on the Praca da Republica in Lagos, Algarve, Portugal, Europe

Statue of the navigator and explorer Joao Goncalves Zarco, left Bonco de Portugal, Funchal, Island Madeira, Portugal, Europe

Monument to the unknown sailor, Odessa, Ukraine, Europe

Sailor's monument, Rostock, Germany